While the BBC series "Peaky Blinders" portrays its tough British street gang in a certain way, the real-life organization was ...

When you close your eyes and think of India, what do you see? For far too many Western tourists, the image is unfairly ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban ...

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Monrovia, while most children were tucked away in classrooms, 10-year-old Kebbeh Johnson and 12-year-old Telema Zayzay sat on a cracked sidewalk in Buzzy Quarter, one ...

Displaced by climate disasters, poverty, or personal tragedy, Dhaka’s streets serve as the only homes for those without shelter ...

Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.

Quite significantly, the Division Bench propounds in para 321 holding that, “The constitutional right to housing for the slum dwellers cannot be protected by compromising the right of other citizens ...

It can show palpable results in helping vulnerable people solve very practical problems. Banerjee and Duflo are at its center. They founded the organization in 2003 as the Poverty Action Lab, along ...

For more than a decade, I have been researching slums in Nairobi and speaking with low-income residents in the capital. I’ve watched Gen Zers grow up since 2010 when some were just 5 years old.

Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...